12:04 AM Oct 14: Sure, I can sleep. We're going to DisneyWorld tomorrow, Uncharted2 is great, and I just paid a quarter for World of Goo!

I realize that paying a quarter for the Mac version of World of Goo is pretty horrible. But honestly, there was no chance I was ever going to buy it. Not that it's a bad game, just that I was not especially interested in it. I still have not spent much time with it, but I will say that it probably has some of the best art direction I've ever seen in a moderately annoying puzzle game.

1:00 PM Oct 14: On the Magical Express to our resort. Clark was not scared at all during the flight.

Quite a jump in updates, from midnight to 1 in the afternoon. I'd call that one the Incredible Relief tweet. IE, we made it to Orlando safely and on time.

1:02 PM Oct 14: The bus soundtrack is playing music from nearly defunct Disney rides: One Little Spark, Listen to the Land.

Now the magic begins. Albeit super-old magic. The bus was running an old Epcot soundtrack album, from back when it was formally EPCOT Center. "One Little Spark" still sort of exists, with Eric Idle and Figment doing a different set of lyrics. I think that homespun original version of "Listen to the Land" is completely gone, although the ride is still there.

1:08 PM Oct 14: If the Kitchen Kabaret medley starts, I am singing along!

No, the soundtrack did not make it to the Kabaret medley. My beloved Kabaret vanished in 1994.

2:17 PM Oct 14: Disney's black bean burger is quite good

Look at the size of that burger (far right)!

I mean, wow. The counterperson apologized for not having a larger roll.

2:36 PM Oct 14: You know, I don't think my #uncharted2 sent out any Twitter updates.

I was aware that Naughty Dog had turned off the Chapter Tweeting once all the early reviewers blew through the entire game in one day. But I was expecting that I would see at least the "Joe got five Trophies last night" kind of thing. It all worked out in the end; my Uncharted tweets arrived in force once we got back from the trip.

4:43 PM Oct 14: Number of guys at Haunted Mansion in Danger Mouse t-shirts: 1

It is really awesome to be at your home in the morning, and then standing in line for what will become one of your son's favorite Disney rides by 4:45.

7:42 PM Oct 14: Do you tip table service on the Disney Dining Plan?

I was told that you do. So we did. And that was all we paid for our meals for ten days.

9:22 AM Oct 15: I don't know how to talk to folks from the South. Because I don't know how to talk to anybody.

On one of the bus rides, we were cornered by a loquacious family from Georgia or wherever. I just can't hold up conversations with strangers. I'm not interested. I can't pretend to be interested. I don't want to be interested. I like it up here in the north where we're silent and bitter.

11:07 AM Oct 15: Clark was just picked to talk to Crush at Turtle Talk!

Yup, we talked to a procedurally-generated CG turtle. It was fun.

12:26 PM Oct 15: Just found a god tract hidden inside the Epcot guide. Oh you fundies and your lies.

How sad. You pay your hundred dollars to get into DisneyWorld, and then spend your time hiding religious propaganda inside the guidemaps. That's the sign of a truly successful religion: the ambush tactic. And the popular corollary: the ambush tactic with poorly designed amateur leaflets containing rastery jpgs.

1:37 PM Oct 15: Gag. Kim Possible system is down.

Big temporary disappointment. They made the cast members hang out by the kiosks anyway. Having never before seen Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure in action, I initially thought the covered-up computer stations were part of the show. Like, secret spy stuff. The Kim attraction would be up by the next time we got to Epcot.

2:04 PM Oct 15: Epcot Japan packed with gaming memorabilia. Will buy Metal Gear t-shirt.

But I didn't. I'm used to paying outlandish prices for Disney stuff, but it seemed weird to pay an outlandish price for stuff that could probably be found elsewhere.

Interestingly, the Sonic t-shirts were $2 cheaper than nearly everything else.

3:37 PM Oct 15: Did some damage to the free Coke of Many Lands exhibit.

Oh yes we did. And all that free liquid did some damage to us later.

4:40 PM Oct 15: Look, somebody has to be the last guy to buy ponchos before it stops raining.

Yeah, I was paying for $8 ponchos just as the big half-hour rainstorm was ending.

8:40 PM Oct 15: Our hotel room exists in a bizarre ATT limbo where it goes from E to 3G to Searching. Constantly.

That was a huge drag. You could go outside and snap into a 3G connection almost immediately, but inside the room it was a nightmare. Must be all that lead paint.